it's amazing to think that in the mid 1950s we were paying the equivalent of
over 2 000 modern day us dollars for relatively small black and white tvs
that required you to fight with a finicky antenna and just 60 years later
you can have an incredibly high high-res lightweight device that sits on your
desk for a tenth of that price so given how quickly the industry has progressed
it's kind of surprising that one of the best display technologies out there
today hasn't yet made its way to our gaming battle stations i'm talking of
course about OLED screens which are common in both televisions and
smartphones thanks to their incredibly good color reproduction deep blacks and
high contrast so consider this there are plenty of big tvs and tiny phones with
OLED screens so why can't we figure out how to put them into medium-sized
computer monitors i mean you could argue that having accurate contrast is even
more important for pcs than it is for tvs and smartphones because a
professional color work is done on pcs and b OLED has extremely fast response
times which is super important for competitive gamers who've gotta frag
lots of noobs in a small amount of time so the challenge is actually twofold one
aspect of the issue has to do with how the technology itself would be used on
desktops and the other has to do with how oleds are actually put together
although OLED delivers a picture that's generally far superior to the led
backlit displays commonly built for desktop and laptop pcs they tend to have
a much shorter lifespan the organic materials that allow the pixels in an
OLED display to generate their own light simply don't last as long as the
backlights in a more run-of-the-mill led screen more specifically blue sub-pixels
tend to burn out much more quickly than red or green ones due to their chemical
makeup so after about 14 000 hours blue
OLED cell pixels will only be about half as bright as they originally were
the red and green subpixels degrade much more slowly leading to your monitor
displaying some very funky looking colors
and not the good kind of funky
and while this is also true for phone displays and tvs consumers tend to not
leave those gadgets on all the time most
phones shut their screens off automatically when not in use for more
than about a minute and unless you're running a bar or hotel where the tv is
perma-tuned to a news or sports channel you typically turn it off after a few
hours at most hopefully this isn't the case with
computer monitors as they tend to be just left on for much longer periods of
time which would hasten the death of those OLED pixels the fact that we leave
our monitors on for such a long time also leads straight to the other
practical challenge burn-in oleds are much more susceptible
to residual image burn in than standard led backlit displays and on a computer
screen which often shows the same desktop wallpaper and ui elements such
as a taskbar users could be left with some very ugly visual artifacts whenever
they want to play a game or simply fire up a web browser for goodness sake but
even if consumers were careful to use screen savers and turn off their
monitors as soon as they're done using them it isn't just user behavior that's
kept OLED screens off of our desktops the manufacturing process has also kept
OLED primarily in the realm of tvs instead of pcs because manufacturing
defects are much more common in OLED screens compared to other types of
displays making them more expensive to produce OLED technology is still common
on phones because manufacturers can stomach the cost of a small screen being
defective and even on large tvs OLED makers can still make a sizeable profit
because sales of tvs tend to dwarf sales
of monitors that has left OLED computer monitors in a bit of a weird space it
doesn't make much sense for companies to start cranking them out in huge numbers
just for them not to sell as well as tvs in addition to having to deal with
widespread consumer dissatisfaction because people just decided to leave
their monitors turned on all the time but this doesn't mean those of you who
want a nice looking OLED monitor should lose hope not only are there now a few
OLED monitors and laptops on the market albeit at higher prices but the industry
is working on finding ways to increase manufacturing efficiency and OLED
longevity including everything from printing the pixels onto a substrate
inkjet style to using slightly different molecules to produce light and color
hopefully in the near future this great piece of tech will find its way onto
desktops around the globe but if it doesn't happen nothing's stopping you
from just plugging your 60-inch OLED tv into your computer and kicking back
except maybe your desk size
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